HANG CHOW NEWS
LETTER.
'LEAGUE OF NATIONS.” ON THE MUD.
MEN AND GIRLS STUDENTS TRAINING FOR WAR.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
HANGCROW, Nov. 5.. The Double Tonth" passad off quietly and without demonstrations. The Municipal Government invited the foreignern to drink the health" of the Republic at their offices at 10 a.m., and many representatives | were thore, both Chinese and for- siga. The Japanese Consul was most ulso present and made a eloquently speech, dealing tactfully and graciously with the present difoultios. After his speech the Mayor thanked him in cordial terms and shook hands with him."
HONG KONG DAILY
THE ROMANCE OF LLOYDS.
ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT: COFFEE-SHOP
"DAYS" RECALLED.
WORLD-WIDE ORGANISATION-EXCEPT IN RUSSIA.
Sir William Hornell, who prosided at the Rotary Club's jug- choon pesterday, was given a very cordial reception by members when he rose to, intruduce, the speaker, Mr. T. 8. Morrison.
Sir William had been absent from these luncheons for some weeks, having taken a trip to the South on account of illness. His re-appearance at the Rotary Club yesterday, with his health completely restored, was a source of gratification to all, and it was no bali hearted applauso which greeted him when he rose to speak.
When the applause had died down, Sir William said: "I am sorry to have been' away so long but I assure you it was not of my own choosing."
Among the visitors who were at yesterday's luncheon were Mr. T. D. W. Bannister of Lon doa, Captain A. W. Davison of.. the Canadian Pacific Bailway sad Rotarian. A.. H. Gordon of Shangbai
The speaker, Mr. T. S. Morrison, chose as his subject "The Functions of Lloyda."'
The Water Works Company are kept pretty busy, as thora is quite WARM WELCOME TO SIR WILLIAM
a rush to have water laid on to large institutions, and in private houses the Company allowing 10 per cent. aff all work put in hand before the end of November.
Flood Refugees.
HORNELL.
Rotarian Morrison said- fd there appears to be some confusion regarding the functions of the Cor There has been an influx of re-poration of Lloyds and of the fugeas from Northera Kiangan Society of Lloyds Register of Ship Food areas and there is quite a son-ing. This confusion may be due, siderable amount of disease amongst them, but the Municipal Govern meat is tackling this problem with vigour and insight Beginning from October I there has been a 19 per cout. tax levied on all electric
to a certain exent, to the fact that they both began life as the and there are now two different bodies, Ao I thought a short address on the subject might be of interest.
I will frst deal with the birth of
In addition to the Register Book or Shipping Man's Bible, which in no doubt" familike to many of you, the committed of Lloyd's Registar issue a Register of Yachts and rules for the construction and classião tion of different types of vessels, also other publications which are of special servico to naval architects, shipbuilders, engineers and struc- tural engineers.
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EMBER 11, 1931.
DEATH AT SEA.
CHINESE EMIGRANT WHO
DISAPPEARED.
COURT APPLICATION.
Legal annotion, was sought at the Supreme Court yesterday, before the Chief Justios (Sir Joseph Kemp), to presume the death of a Aircraft Survey.
Chinose emigrant and also for lot- About two years ago the Society tars at administration to be grant extended its operations to include led to his estate. The emigrant was the inspection of commercial air stated to have disappeared at sen craft in Great Britain, and air, while returning to China last: worthy certificates are issued by the April. Committee upon receipt of satisfac- tory reperta from the surveyors.. od by Mr. A. R. Covey, (of Messze. Special surveyors for aircraft G. K. Halle Brutton and Co.) mode have been appointed having the the applications on behalf of de necessary qualifications and experi ceased's eldast son, Teo Woon Fu, ence for this work and it is the in- temporarily residing in Hong tention of the committee to extend Kong Deceased was known as this service to other places abroad To Sul, aliar Teo Bu, alias Tow Suoy, alias To Sue, late of Oakland, Ba opportunity occurs,
San Francisco, USA
In conclusion, I trust this short. address may help to make clear the difference between the Corporation of Lloyds and Lloyds Register of Shipping and although they are two different bodies, run independently, in the far-ranging and immensely it will be realised that they are in complex enterprise of insurance.
the ofosest alliance, the surveyor, in Take, for instance, its intelligence surveying and classifying ships, sup- service. There is a Lloyd's agent plies the technical appraisement in every port and on every coast necessary for underwriters and bro throughout the globe anl by tele-kers to do business graut and wireless Lloyd's is kept informed every minute of the day and night of the movements of all ocean-going ships and of all casual tien. They hlso issue a number of publications which are useful" to
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Lloyds in Hong Kong,
of the Club, Rotarian Aucott said In thanking the speaker on behalf the subject was one which interest
Mr. Leo D'Almada, jar, instruct-
Counsel said that the applicant had filed an fidavit to the effect that his father left his native vit States, but he ravaly wrote to hin lago some years ago for the United
people. Applicant had an uncle: living in Beattle.
Deceased Last Trip.
that deceased was returning to The only intimation they had China, was contained in a letter from the uncle, which stated that the deceased, after waiting for some
bima for his father to come from the native village, was compelled to return alone, and was leaving the
rive in Hong Kong about May United States on April 8, 1981, by the President Madison, due to ar- On the arrival of the ship, applic him tremendously and he was ant was informed that his father have given a longer address than he hoping that M, Morrison would had been lost at sås,
Counsel also dealt with other
light; this tax is said to be for "the Lloyds. Towards the latter, part those in the shipping business and did because the subject was one of affidavits, referring to one by t Flood Relief Commission, but as it ofthe 17th Century the growth of in numerous other ways are a dis. would appear to be, a jocal affair the British Mercantile Marino had Itinet, sorvice to commerce in gene-Rotarian Morrison had said, and on the same ship with T80 and that i
there is some little misgiving,
Delegates Delighted.
Register of Shipping: Rotarian Morrison went on to speak of the "functions of Lloyd's Register of Shipping. He said: The Society of Lloyd's Register of Shipping was founded in 100 in Lloyd's Coffee House and was 70- constituted in 1834. It is a volum
reached such a stage that the ral. owners of ships, the merchants who A large number of delegates from sent cargoes across the seas and thei the Conference of Pao-Pacific Re-people who took risks of insurance lations were able to have a short upon the ships and cargoes, began to feel the want of an exchange, woek-end in Hangehow. Both the Provincial and Municipal Govorn-club house, or other such place ments joined in welcoming these where they eight most daily and visitors, and at their first moni mutually transact business. prominent Chinesa and foreigners Coffee houses had recently coine were invited to meet them. They into popularity in London and busitary association of underwriters "spent the whole of Sunday sightness men found it convenient to use going, and returned to Shanghai them for the purpose of such meet or the next day full of praises for fogs. A certain Edward. Lloyd "Heavon, Below" regretting that kept one of these houses, arst in their visit hers had been of so short Tower Street and later in Lom
bard Street, and it was to his coffee house shipping people gravimaped
duration.
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peculiar interest to Hongkong as a former Chinese cook at Chicago, big shipping port From what which stated that he travelled on looking through the Register of five days after leaving Seattle Tac Shipping, one must realise what a was not to be found. Another vast organisation it must be and affidavit by the purser of the ship what an enormous amount of work stated that the deceased was absent was entailed,
from all roll colla except the first at Seattle. There was a further vessel, which stated that he was affidavit from the cantain of the informed on April 2 that a man was missing. A search was made without result, and the affidavit stated that the man, must have fall len or jumped overboard and been drowned on April 22
In the course of his address, Ro- something about one of the fanc tarian Morrison had mentioned tions of Lloyd's being to extend the number of their surveyors. He con- tinued: "As a shipping man who has been resident in Hongkong for nearly 30 years, it seems to me that the number of surveyors has in
Long Bitence.⠀ shipowners, shipbuilders, engineers crelised tremendously in Hongkong.
Counsel omitted that, from the and others, which exists for the That means, in the first place, that
greater attention is being given to affidavits, his Lordship could give Purpose, of surveying and classifying the upkeep of ships which, from the leave to prosuma death on or after shipping. In all essentials it is shippers point of view is an excelApril 29. as five months had slapsed public body having no commercialent thing. It also means that the and nothing had been heard, or re purposes to serve beyond those of shipping companies are being called ceived, from the missing man.
upon to bear a heavier burden in the public interest, The whole of the expenses of maintaining their for the daily interchange of news.its revenue is devited in the interships, which means greater effici- This enterprising proprietor con- est of shipping, to extending its oncy, In view of this progress, in
staff of surveyors, and perfecting its organisation.
surkace companies ought to" see to
(Laughter).
it that their rates are reduced
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insurance man and no doubt an in "I am a shipping man and not an surante man could give a reply to that remark,”
"I hope that on some" future occasion Rotarian Morrison might be asked to expand upon the infor mation he has given us and let us because the more you think about know even a little more about, it,
it and go into it, the more you realise how. Hongkong, as a ship
League of Nations Stranded I Yesterday a deputation from the League of Nations arrived in Hang- chow, and a big dinner was given ceived the idea that by providing in their honour at the Lake View his customers with reliabis intelli-
Its rules form the basis of con- Hotel. Among the distinguished genes regarding the ships in docks, guests were Professor Tawney of the he might incidentally benefit his tract between shipbuilders, and London University; Mr. Taylor of business." He therefore commenced shipowners and between shipowners the Longue of Nations Office, Nan- by supplying written and subscand merchants, charterers and be- king: Profesor Lange, the well- known French mathematician and queatly printed sheets containing tween all four and underwriters. physicist and Dr. Becker, the sundry records of shipping for the The now familiar term, A 1 at former Prussian Minister of Educa information of those visiting his Lloyd's" first came into use in tion. The Mayor, Mr. Chan and
house. So, by degrees, there was 1775,.."A" representing a ship's his wife were the hosts and had invited several representatives from formed at Lloyd's Coffee House the hall of the first class and the figure both Chinese and foreign circles beginning of a Marine Insurance"" representing a Brat-rate equipping port, is bound up in this ques Some members of the League will not quickly forget their visit to Corporation and of a Registration mont. To-day the term "160 A 1 Hangchow, for they had arranged to cross the Chien Tang river and go to Shaoshingfu, but they timed their return to inte, so that the inst ferry back had already left, There was nothing for it but to hire a native boat, which got stuck for some time on a sand bank. Some anxinty was felt for their safety whom they failed to turn up to din ner at the correct hour, and tels phone messages as to their whers. aboute were fruitless.
and Classification Society, the issue denote a full scantling vessel of the
of which one sees to-day in the Cor- first class atd with Brst-rate equip poration of Lloyd's and in the Soment and having the maximum ciety of Lloyd's Register of Ship-draught permitted by her dhunen ping, "..
sions, There are modifications of this term to suit different types of ships and service intended....
Surveyors Throughout the Globe.
Lloyd's Register have eurveyors stationed at all the principal ports
The Functions of Lloyds, Dealing with the functions of the Corporation of Lloyds, the speaker continued:Lloyd's itself does no did appear at the dinner, not a few insurance business any more than of the Chinese officials were much the Stock Exchange, as such, buys in the world, except Russia, whose relieved.
Personal and Missionary..."
When they
tion."
In cranting the amoliention! kša
Lordshin said he would riva lanve tn swear death during the month of April, and directed that in an plving for letters of administrstino the applicant must prove his ident
ity"
AMERICAN ATTACHE IN HỒNG KONG
MR. J. H. ARNOLD..
Mr Julean H. Arnold, American
rives in Hong Kong on Commercial Attache to China, ar.
tho Haiohing "this morning from Shanghai, Amoy and Swatow, Arnold's appointment as Commer Twelve years provions to Mr.
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cial Attache to the American Lega Rotary and Beout Movement, tion in 1914, ha. served in various
China porta na
American Rotarian A. H. Gordon of Shang Consular Officer, his career in hai, on being invited by the Chair China beginning in July 1902. Mr. was almost a year since he attended ber of times by the Chinese Glov man to say a few words, said it Arnold has been deocrated a num- the inaugural meeting of the Rotary ernment and is the author of many Club of Hong Kong and he had monographs and treatises on econo since watched its progress with the mic and commercial China. This keennest interest. He thought, is Mr. Arnold's first visit to Hong however, that the Botary Club did Kong since the establishment of the not show sufficient interest in the cffice of the American Trade Com work and activities of the boys. in missioner in this city. the Colony who were going to ha the men to bomberow. He was Rotary Club had not interamed it- rather surprised to see that the
that was one of the major activities of the Club in Shanghai and at several places in Britain..
or selia securities. They have not-duty it is, (1) to murvey and report Misa M. Chisholm, Secretary of ag to do with insurance in the upon vessels, machinery and boilers self in the Boy, Scout movement as the Y.W.C.A., left for furlough in way of taking risks or paying losses being built with a view to classifica Scotland this week, and Miss M. and know no more, as a Corporate tion with the Society. (9) To hold Foster of the C.MS. Hospital has body, of what business is transacta surveys on classed vessels as re also left us. We have recently wel
NAVAL FUNERAL.
O.P.O. KIRET LAID TO REST
The death occurred on Monday at the Royal Naval Hospital of In Hongkong, said Rotarian Gor: Chief Petty Officer Frank Kirby of don, they had a very excellent inan HM8, Hermes.
comed Mr and Mrs. Decker from ed between any individual under- quired by the rules. (3) To survey at the head of the Scout movement CAP.O, Kirby was taken ill re-
Ningpo fennis is in full swing as the weather now is ideal for it.
writer and Bay individus assured ships, machinery and boilers (class in the person of Rev. G. T. Walde gently with pneumonia. At one than the Committee of the Stocked or uncinased) upon application grave. He had not been asked by time he appeared to be well on the At the monthly meeting of Exchange know of the transactions made by the owners or with their Mr. Waldegrave to do so, but he way to recovery but a relapse o Missionary Association Colonel Stroeber, of the Yangtero Consergoing on between a client and his consent, for the purpose of ecworth, considering and that was, away at noon on Monday.
stockbroker.
vancy Board, gave a most interest ing and instructive talk, illustrated
mentioned the matter as a point ourred, last weak and he "passed" that not a single member of the Ros The deceased had been in the tary Club had ever been to a local | Royal Navy for about eighteen Scout rally. He pointed out that in years and was serving his last term Shanghai, when these rallies were on foreign service. held, no fewer than twenty Botar He leaves a wife and two child- lans and their families would be ren (twins) and an aged father to there to watch. Mr. Gordon, also mourn his loss. His nephew, MA into closer touch with the activities in the Hong Kong Police force mentioned the possibility of getting Walter Kirby is a Crown Bergeant: of Deep Sea Scouts.
The funeral will full naval: hon-
taining any damage they may have by moving picturos, of the foods in The whole duty of the Corpora- sastained and furnish the parties the middle Yangtzie and Northern tion and it excutive is to afford interested with a report on some. Kiangsu province. Many Chiness students were invited to this in- insurance brokers a place of meet (4) to survey yachts or their mu formal gathering, and everyone ing with those who undertake the chinery and boilers (glassed or un- appreciated Colonel Stroeber's hddress,
risks and to afford every facility classed) upon application with the and all information they can to unwritten consent of the owner for The feeling towards Japani eanderwriters and brokers.
the purpose of reporting on their porhaps best be understood by the. This function of affording every condition previous to purchase. (6) Sir William Hornell, in thanking curs took place yesterday after- fact that Japanese goods have prao- fically disappeared from the local facility and all information to une to murvey vessels (classed or un Mr. Gordon for his suggestion, noon.
Anti-Japanese Feeling,
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pointed out. the Rotary Club shops; nearly all men students arodorwriters and brokers is not a lean classed) upon application under the had been in existence scarcely a undergoing military training in their schools and colleges, and the 90s. It goes very far beyond the Marchant Shipping Acte with a year and he thought those who were low. However, the suggestion senior girls in the larger schools mere provision of rooms and desks. view to the assignment of Free- in charge of the destiny of the Club would be borne in mind, are having hurried training in Red It embraces pretty nearly every boards by the Committee (6) to Hong Kong as only those who have
and considered it wise, koowing it was astounged that the for DODWELL & Cross work; and many others have been going into the country dis- thing that can assist underwriters test steel and inspect forgings and lived thers know it to go a bit triets to conduct war propaganda. and brokers and protect the public castings as may be required. (Continued at foot of nest column,)
Club will place wreaths on the Cenotaph and the Chines Memori-
today, Armstice Day,
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